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Oliver Pike (cricketer)

Welsh cricketer (born 1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ29052058 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oliver Pike (born 2 April 1998) is a Welsh cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Cardiff MCCU against Glamorgan as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures.

Personal life

He is the cousin of Welsh footballer Gareth Bale and the son of former Cardiff City footballer Chris Pike.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Oliver Pike (cricketer)” is welsh cricketer (born 1998). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oliver, Pike and cricketer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-04-02. For this dossier, Oliver, Pike and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “welsh cricketer (born 1998)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29052058. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oliver Pike (cricketer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.